I wonder anyone has experience with offset printing on CD-R. I used a company in Redmond WA to do silkscreen on CD-R and the result was horrible. The picture was pixelated and the resolution sucks! I was told offset printing will eliminate the problem and I contacted few companies but they all said offset printing will peel off the metallic layer. Didn't they do offset printing on the retail CDs?

We tried silkscreen on CD-R before and the result was ok. But until we saw offset printing then we know there was a big difference. Silkscreen is ok for very solid artwork such as logo and text. Offset is good for picture artwork. If you have a picture artwork and you used silkscreen then the printer should warn you.

FYI, I tried http://www.newcyberian.com/regcdr.html and just got my first batch of 1000 discs, $640 for offset printing including the 52x media. I guess this is a pretty good deal. But I found the data side of the discs is slightly yellow greenish. Once I burn a disc I can see the burned area. I was wondering if there a kind of CD-R that you can hide it's being a CD-R; i.e. not to reveal the burned area. New Cyberian Systsems told me this is called silver diamond disc but bummer they don't carry those disc now. Anyone know where I can find them? Thanks!

New Cyberian has the silver diamond in stock now. Thanks to this thread I put a rain check to them and they finally got me the silver diamond CD-R with offset printing. It cost me a little bit more but it was worth it. Once burned, it looks like a disc that is pressed from a glass master, namely cd replication.

Eventually I had the need to copy 1000 DVDs. It only cost my $740 to do the DVD replication. In the beginning I had my mind stuck in burning the CD-R or DVD-R but never realized sometimes replication is even cheaper. You need to have volume to justify though.